'London fashionable Dresses', September 1806
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'London fashionable Dresses', September 1806
published in The Lady's Magazine
hand-coloured etching and line engraving, published September 1806
7 7/8 in. x 4 1/2 in. (201 mm x 114 mm) paper size
Acquired, 1930
Reference Collection
NPG D47524
Artistback to top
- The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832), Magazine. Artist or producer associated with 36 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Described in the magazine:
1. A half-dress jacket, and train: petticoat of fine India muslin, with a Vandyke border; the bosom and front of the jacket ornamented with rich work, and closed with buttons and tassels: a high collar, trimmed with muslin rolleau [rouleau], and fastened with a gold brooch: straw hat, tied under the chin with a white figured silk handkerchief, and a sprig of geranium in the front of the hair. Black lace shawl, and brown or grey velvet shoes.
2. Plain white muslin robe, with gold ornaments, over a white sarsnet lining and petticoat: a rich lace cap, turned up in front with a diamond crescent: scarf or mantle of crimson silk, with a rich border: white kid shoes, with gold rosettes.
Subjects & Themesback to top
- Fashion Plates: Activities and occasions - Half dress; demi-toilet
- Fashion Plates: Dresses - Jackets and petticoats; jackets and skirts
- Fashion Plates: Dresses - Robes
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Muslin
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Sarsnet; sarcenet
- Fashion Plates: Fabrics - Silk
- Fashion Plates: Footwear - Kid shoes
- Fashion Plates: Footwear - Velvet shoes
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Dress caps
- Fashion Plates: Headwear - Straw hats and bonnets
- Fashion Plates: Influences - Classical influence
- Fashion Plates: Neckwear - Handkerchiefs
- Fashion Plates: Outer garments - Cloaks; mantles
- Fashion Plates: Outer garments - Shawls
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Rouleaux
- Fashion Plates: Trimmings and ornamentation - Vandyking
Events of 1806back to top
Current affairs
William Pitt dies in January and his lifelong opponent Charles James Fox dies in September. Pitt is succeeded by William Wyndham, Baron Grenville, who forms the 'Ministry of all the Talents' coalition .Prince of Wales instigates the 'Delicate Investigation'; a Parliamentary enquiry into claims that his wife Caroline had an illegitimate child.
Art and science
John Constable embarks on a formative tour of the Lakes and makes landscape studies of the Langdale Pikes and Helvellyn.Turner exhibits his Thames views to acclaim at his own London gallery.
Humphrey Davy discovers the elements potassium and sodium by passing an electrical current through molten compounds.
International
Soprano Angelica Catalani arrives from Italy to make her London debut, amazing audiences with her showpiece arias.Napoleon turns his forces east against Austria, Russia and Prussia and enjoys a wave of French victories.
British attack on Buenos Aires under General William Beresford fails.
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